Ano 1904

"Children in the Surf, Coney Island" is a very short documentary with Billy Bitzer behind the camera.

A group of men weld one area of a large ring in a fire. They lift the ring, which is hanging horizontally on chains, out of the fire. Four men hammer the hot area on the ring into shape while the remaining men hold the ring. They put the ring into the fire again, take it out, and take it over to a machine which continuously hammers down on that area of the ring. The men then take it away from the machine and hammer it themselves into shape. The ring is presumably a piece of a generator.

A group of men work on various parts of a large generator, assembling the pieces

A woman and her guests frantically search for her missing child, who is eventually found playing with her dog in the kennel.

A small group of men turn on what appears to be a generator. As the rotary spins, the men make adjustments to the machine and check its operations.

A mountaineer loads a shipment of moonshine whiskey onto his horse-cart, then goes to make a delivery. After he leaves, a revenue agent comes to the mountaineer's house to stake it out, and he soon observes some whiskey being traded for corn. The agent at once goes to alert other revenue officers, who arm themselves with rifles and then begin an immediate search for the moonshiner's still.

Numerous women stand in rows at winding machines, taking material from large spools behind them. A male supervisor walks down the aisle, checking the work of the women.

A turbine is shown operating.

A large bucket is lowered into a pit by male workers using machinery. Molten material from a furnace is poured into the bucket using a slide. The bucket, which has flames coming from inside, is lifted up from the pit by a crane.

A view of the opening ceromonies for New York's Williamsburg Bridge.

A deranged man who believes he is Napoleon escapes the asylum and leads his keepers on a wild chase.

People doing the Cake Walk dance on the Beach at Coney Island.

Several Japanese youths are playing various games and enjoying some refreshments outdoors when a military courier arrives. The messenger asks for one of the young men, and gives him his orders. The young man puts on his uniform, leaves home, and reports to a unit in the field, where preparations are being made for a battle against the Russians. The young soldier is then sent on a dangerous but important mission.

An office boy at Biograph learns how to operate a camera, and when he spies the boss kissing his secretary, he records their illicit act.

Two black men are stealing chickens and get chased by the white farmers.

Employees leaving Westinghouse Works .

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying equipment are shown traveling on rails down the aisles. There are also men walking in the aisles. From Bitzer's Westinghouse Works series.

A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in.

Despite his younger sister's remonstrances, a precocious schoolboy wants to smoke a cigarette he stole from his father. But he is soon punished for his audacity by a stomach cramp that intensifies until it culminates in terrible nausea and its inevitable consequence.